Gacy victims exhumed to ID them

[jaxx]

APNewsBreak: Gacy victims exhumed to ID them

Oct 12, 10:09 AM (ET)

By DON BABWIN

CHICAGO (AP) - More than 30 years after a collection of skeletal remains was found beneath John Wayne Gacy's house, detectives have secretly exhumed bones of eight young men who were never identified in hopes of answering a final question: Who were they?

The Cook County Sheriff's Department says DNA testing could solve the last mystery of one of the nation's worst serial killers, and authorities planned Wednesday to ask for the public's help in determining the victims' names.

Investigators are urging relatives of anyone who disappeared between 1970 and Gacy's 1978 arrest - and who is still unaccounted for - to undergo saliva tests to compare their DNA with that of the skeletal remains.

<..> Just days ago, a judge granted a request to exhume one victim whose mother doubted the medical examiner's conclusion that her son's remains were found under Gacy's house. Dart said other families have the same need for certainty.

http://apnews.excite.com/article/2011101...PV001.html

After all these years I'd think family members would be trying to find out what happened to their loved ones. Interesting article.

[Treestar]

Yeah, having someone missing that long - you'd want to know for sure.